Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2007

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 1


 * 1) ...and drink plenty of fluids
 * 2) sulphur in eggs
 * 3) control &c.
 * 4) magnets
 * 5) Catastrophal global warming through release of gaseous compounds from ocean floors
 * 6) Polymaths needed!
 * 7) coke

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 2


 * 1) basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
 * 2) basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
 * 3) Energy density of gunpowder?
 * 4) Slave ships
 * 5) Blood question
 * 6) etallic taste
 * 7) Men/women telephone bills
 * 8) Metal surfaces
 * 9) Phytonutrient content
 * 10) valves 3/2 or 3/2 valves?
 * 11) Calorie consumption at low temperature
 * 12) Calorific content of Ethanol
 * 13) Ice

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 3


 * 1) Freezing water: If there is no room for expansion, will it still freeze?
 * 2) Hexane production in Nigeria
 * 3) Sister symptom to motion sickness
 * 4) Wahhhh. Physics is so confusing
 * 5) Homosexual High Pitched Voice
 * 6) Aerogel filter
 * 7) Bicycle tire diameter...?
 * 8) Colonisation of the solar system
 * 9) avg. frictional force
 * 10) Why is water removed from a washed hand when you shake your hands?...
 * 11) circular motion
 * 12) tug of war
 * 13) acceleration due to gravity...
 * 14) Do inanimate objects 'know' they are being watched?
 * 15) step climber
 * 16) Grover's Disease...Transient Acanthalytic Dermatosa
 * 17) Lemon Juice Causing Tooth Damage
 * 18) Prime Gun or Primegun?
 * 19) Where does this saying come from?
 * 20) continuous centrifuge or separator for getting water (and possibly foreign particules) out of oil
 * 21) Chlorate vs Chloride
 * 22) Polymeric material used in white goods

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 4


 * 1) rodent  shrew
 * 2) Lens Assembly - Collimating Beam
 * 3) what is the relationship between a football's pressure and throwing accuracy
 * 4) Fast light?
 * 5) Bigger world?
 * 6) as stove burners
 * 7) Mass spectrometry vs radio carbon dating
 * 8) Bioelectricity
 * 9) Equivalents to recreational mathematics
 * 10) ornithopters
 * 11) potatoe clock?
 * 12) ummy tucks and EKGs
 * 13) Faster than light?
 * 14) Travel of light
 * 15) Delta brainwave?
 * 16) Hard body bits
 * 17) Resistor value

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 5


 * 1) Buzz
 * 2) Talk:Lemming "so do they jump off cliffs?"
 * 3) Twice the focal length? You must be crazy...!
 * 4) Ion Implantation
 * 5) Crop circles
 * 6) soil microbiology
 * 7) resistance of wires
 * 8) Ortho-effect & ortho-para positioning(Organic Chemistry)
 * 9) Hippocratic constraints
 * 10) Biasing a BJT Common Emitter amplifier
 * 11) Bio Reserve
 * 12) 48 to 46
 * 13) Nuclear Fusion
 * 14) metal reaction

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 6


 * 1) Life or death determination
 * 2) Struggling Butterflies
 * 3)  Butterfly technical question
 * 4) Love and P A I N
 * 5) Scientifically speaking Alcohol
 * 6) Type of Science
 * 7) Anaerobic respiration
 * 8) What is sleep apnea ?
 * 9) Herpes?
 * 10) sugar
 * 11) Immunizations
 * 12) Do cats and dogs understand tv?
 * 13) Every breath very probably has an air atom also breathed by Julius Caesar

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 7


 * 1) haploid/diploid
 * 2) inding energy
 * 3) Waterjets for teeth dangerous?
 * 4) Tilt-shift Photography
 * 5) What is type of this huge spider? Please let me know if you can figure out.
 * 6) confidentiallity
 * 7) The end of time ?
 * 8) Lactose and yeast fermentation
 * 9)  Saccharomyces cerevisiae
 * 10) liquid nitrogen in the tube
 * 11) Scientific Question: Regarding Great Intelligence
 * 12) Price  of Copper and Brass
 * 13) Sculpting a sphere
 * 14) channel form efficiency and hydraulic radius
 * 15) Light pollution
 * 16) Biological night vision
 * 17) Percentages regarding gas and water components in inspired and expired air
 * 18) VSEPR Bonding
 * 19) hat is oxidation?
 * 20) effects of solvents on styrofoam
 * 21) Architectural / structural terminology

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 8


 * 1) electron hotel
 * 2) Diffuse/Lambertian reflection
 * 3) Provisions for recharging electric vehicles from the grid by cities
 * 4) Is meme a scientific concept?
 * 5) Atmospheric pressure
 * 6) Hall effect sensor/switch identification
 * 7) radio broadcasting
 * 8) Gravity
 * 9)  Gravity of the moon? ...the sun?
 * 10) Work-Energy theorem
 * 11) work done by a force
 * 12) What is the antonym of feral?
 * 13) Gas Leak
 * 14) Bananas
 * 15) Clinical Physiologist.
 * 16) Darwinism; the human race compared to other animals
 * 17) Just droppin' objects
 * 18) .H. Horowitz
 * 19) I-V characteristics of Josephson junctions
 * 20) Looking for scientific journals
 * 21) relation of the sun and wind
 * 22) Propranolol side effects
 * 23) Escherichia coli
 * 24) Horst Tube Submarine
 * 25) Electromagnetic Radiation from the end of coaxial cable
 * 26) Caps and Baldness
 * 27) A fungus among us
 * 28) Weird science...
 * 29) Noodle soup
 * 30) Momentum

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 9


 * 1) How to find a reference...?
 * 2) Standard taper ground glass joints (glassware): ISO vs. US
 * 3) Importance of academic degrees
 * 4) Cosmic inflation
 * 5) trivias about sounds...
 * 6) Why does catnip have that kind of effect on cats?
 * 7) Evolution of organs
 * 8) better cooling
 * 9) Chemistry Trouble
 * 10) unfitness test
 * 11) Galinstan?
 * 12) Two Hybrid Screening In Yeast
 * 13) Elemental form
 * 14) How's it done?
 * 15) Reversible Gas Turbines
 * 16) Measuring rainfall
 * 17) sideways in time

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 10


 * 1) Joinery
 * 2) Corrosive gallium
 * 3) Healing after a spinal injury/surgery
 * 4) Why do Acetone and other solvents dissolve polystyrene?
 * 5) ELISA Reading
 * 6) Corrupted page
 * 7) Huntington's disease
 * 8) force constant
 * 9) Circuit with two switches
 * 10) Rider question 8-)
 * 11) Will there be a mass die-off of my local gulls?
 * 12) geophysics
 * 13) Frozen Corona
 * 14) work done by frictional force
 * 15) Images with eyes closed
 * 16) Ink
 * 17) Blonde haired blue-eyed cavemen
 * 18) Interaction and placement of magnetic fields in a DC permanent magnet motor...?
 * 19) medical term for eye crust
 * 20) Parts of an automobile
 * 21) Furniture materials and health effects
 * 22) Water Displacement in Ferries

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 11


 * 1) Sweet potatoes don't grow on trees
 * 2) Red Blood Cells
 * 3) Chemistry - What is a plasma
 * 4) What is this psychological phenomenon called ("illusion" seems too general)
 * 5) Volume of Atmosphere
 * 6) Names of the toes
 * 7) free engineering handbook downloads
 * 8) Minimal diet
 * 9) physical exercise and aching after
 * 10) Aloneaphobia?
 * 11) Ernst Ruska
 * 12) Peanuts!!!
 * 13) Questions regarding a Rainbow
 * 14) The optic nerve
 * 15) Is it possible to convert random solid objects into liquid?
 * 16) hemistry Naming question
 * 17) Plans for building a spaghetti bridge

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 12


 * 1) ar crash
 * 2) Farting between sexes
 * 3) How does light slow down in glass?
 * 4) Light speed and time
 * 5) Tell me about the physical substance of memory and personality
 * 6) Quantum Physics
 * 7) Tungsten
 * 8) Thermal Conductivity?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 13


 * 1) Conservation of energy?
 * 2) Gallium Reactions
 * 3) Chemical supplier?
 * 4) Question 1 about my eyes
 * 5) Question 2 about my eyes
 * 6) Frog in boiling water
 * 7) DVD Vs Real Life clarity
 * 8) Ampules
 * 9) Astronomical Distance
 * 10) Resistance
 * 11) Planet82
 * 12) Composition of Solar Radiation: are gamma rays present?
 * 13)  Why is the Moon brighter than the Sun, in gamma radiation ?
 * 14) Audio file compression
 * 15) yield stress
 * 16) sonic screwdrivers
 * 17) Memory foam outgassing and an air purifier
 * 18) Entropy vs. Energy
 * 19) Visualization
 * 20) Far from home?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 14


 * 1) Embryonic Stem Cells and the beginning of human life
 * 2) Metal Working
 * 3) ight pollution help
 * 4) Shaking a bottle of ice and water
 * 5) Hearing problems
 * 6) Fire Bottle
 * 7) Why do cats love fish?
 * 8) Simple microcontroller stepper control
 * 9) Why Mercury?
 * 10) manufacture of petorl
 * 11) Perpetual Motion
 * 12) Forget frogs.  How about crabs?
 * 13) physics-infrared photographic optics question
 * 14) Can woodpeckers manipulate objects with their feet?
 * q
 * 1) NORTH POLE TO SINGAPORE
 * 2) effect of total silence on human hearing
 * 3) Working Mechanism-SRE
 * 4) Zebra subspecies identification
 * 5) casimir effect and gravity mix up
 * 6) ow can digital radios auotmatically jump over noisy channels?
 * 7) Pluto
 * 8) Different Interpretations of color
 * 9) What is this bird?
 * 10) The illusion of time
 * 11) ORGANS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
 * 12) Stars: Supergiants, giants, dwarves and so on

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 15


 * 1) Why do some people sneeze when in pain?
 * 2) avel type: innies, outies and ???
 * 3) Subway Tunnels and Fallout?
 * 4) Copying documents before xerography
 * 5) Acids & Metals?
 * 6) animal adaptations
 * 7) Tunnel transport system
 * 8) Paper and Water
 * 9) Human Genome Project
 * 10) Paper and water (different question)
 * 11) Lemur taxonomy

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 16


 * 1) Alkaline battery capacity under high load
 * 2) Earth's atmosphere
 * 3) Animals eat plants
 * 4) How many frames per second is...
 * 5) Drinking metal?
 * 6) Where to buy Galinstan?
 * 7) Is a fully nutritious ready-to-eat paste a "bad" thing?
 * 8) Star Catalogue SO
 * 9) Sense Deprivation Chamber
 * 10) Reversing caries
 * 11) Oxygen Sensor
 * 12) How much would it cost to build a hydrogen maser?
 * 13) P wave of light
 * 14) chemistry
 * 15) GENDER PREFERENCE IN ART
 * 16) enzyl cyanide
 * 17) cold heat
 * 18) ID a cat breed for me?
 * 19) BATTERIES
 * 20) Health question
 * 21) appropriate/inappropriate medical image guidelines
 * 22) hemistry Resources
 * 23) Fusion Rocket
 * 24) Gallium corrosion
 * 25) Battery load testing..?
 * 1) Gallium corrosion
 * 2) Battery load testing..?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 17


 * 1) Source of salt in ocean water
 * 2) Escalator handrails
 * 3) Economical Nutrition (+ side question)
 * 4) Unnatural Star Creation
 * 5) Physics question
 * 6) zetasizer in small sizes
 * 7) hydroelectricity and fishees
 * 8) pixel counter
 * 9) sea snake reproduction?
 * 10) Heartbeat sounds
 * 11) 50/60 Hz Microwave oven
 * 12) Late 1800 supernaturalism
 * 13) Non-circular pupil
 * 14) Autoclaves
 * 15) the free website for science
 * 16) Old Age in fish
 * 17) ecosystems
 * 18) Not Injecting coffee
 * 19) Weather
 * 20) eel
 * 21) nidentified Sea Creature
 * 22) Sex demarkation in llamas?
 * 23) Carnivorous bird species as housepets?
 * 24) 'Gravity' increase if earth stopped spinning

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 18


 * 1) Energy and Radiation
 * 2) Escape Velocity
 * 3) Apollo 11
 * 4) synosphere in fly ash
 * 5) Suppose someone were to set off a hydrogen bomb on the surface of the moon...
 * 6) Putting a man on Mars
 * 7) renewable energy
 * 8) New inventions in the last 40 years
 * 9) Tonsilitis and the common cold
 * 10) Acetylcholine
 * 11) Blue moon in February?
 * 12) Why does cuticle skin come off so easily?
 * 13) Group and phase velocities...
 * 14) request information on radiation posion
 * 15) one more question
 * 16) Time and thought

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 19


 * 1) Attacked by aliens
 * 2) Animal Tracks
 * 3) Anamorphic widescreen
 * 4) A compressed virtual disc
 * 5) Amplitude of EM waves
 * 6) Heats of combustion of common alkanols
 * 7) I love you more than....
 * 8) Odd color perception with a tone of violet
 * 9) Great White shark and sea lion
 * 10) Radioactive poisoning and possible cures
 * 11) Arun S. Bagh
 * 12) Hydrogen storage and burning
 * 13) vegetables cooking
 * 14) Tritium oxide
 * 15) Thermal Nuclear Rocket

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 20


 * 1) What does RCSWI mean?
 * 2) Paracetemol
 * 3) Accented beats in music
 * 4) RF Load
 * 5) Further details from OP
 * 6) Waveguide or coaxial cable feed?
 * 7) Silicon oil
 * 8) Head on collision between atoms and thermodynamic temperature
 * 9) Vocal loading
 * 10) Arun arun arun
 * 11) Metal identification and care
 * 12) Sleep and long-term memory
 * 13) Sleep patterns in the elderly
 * 14) Why do we steadily lose high frequency hearing ?
 * 15) Atoms & subatomic particles
 * 16) Number of farads per square foot or pound...?
 * 17) Heat
 * 18) water body

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 21


 * 1) gallon challenge
 * 2) Supercapacitor research...?
 * 3) Length of an hour...?
 * 4) Osmosis
 * 5) Nuclear
 * 6) The rusting of Iron compunds
 * 7) Boltzmann distribution
 * 8) science project question
 * 9) Meteor (?) near Geneva
 * 10) Speed of light and Relativity
 * 11) Ornithopters again.
 * 12) Photons
 * 13) Biology
 * 14) You can eat it, or throw it away...
 * 15) When the gulls are eating together
 * 16) Antihypertensive Foods?
 * 17) adrenal glands

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 22


 * 1) Hypothetical
 * 2) Amp hours...?
 * 3) Stethography
 * 4) Planetary positions in the future
 * 5) Water Fuel
 * 6) Blood conductivity.
 * 7) Crazy Voice
 * 8) References
 * 9) DEBATE HELP ON GLOBAL WARMING
 * 10) Strange phenomenon with digital camera
 * 11) Antibiotics question
 * 12) Hydrogen Vehicles on a Mass Transit Scale
 * 13) What kind of wood??
 * 14) Incendiary laser pointer: Star Wars junior?
 * 15) What Bird Is This
 * 16) sun's energy
 * 17) time

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 23


 * 1) Seagulls
 * 2) Ducks
 * 3) Experiments for time dilation
 * 4) String theory
 * 5) Steroids
 * 6) Working Out
 * 7) Why do animals cock their heads?
 * 8) Prana-bindu
 * 9) Alkanes and their Boiling Points
 * 10) Stars in the southern sky
 * 11) Silicon Oil
 * 12) Stem Cell Research Global Funding
 * 13) Ambient Infrared/Ultraviolet
 * 14) measurement standard of blade sharpness
 * 15) Burled wood
 * 16) Tame budgies falling asleep when spoken to softly...

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 24


 * 1) non-venomous snakes
 * 2) Zinc and HCl reaction with copper catalyst
 * 3) Electricution by speakers
 * 4) Sound energy
 * 5) Buying Copper?
 * 6) Homosexual transexual
 * 7) rf load
 * 8) How to find technical bibliography of biology professor
 * 9) Cooking with gas.
 * 10) national geographic
 * 11) Dead body reflexes
 * 12) Liquids that are safe to drink?
 * 13) choir boys
 * 14) Safety Critical Decision Making
 * 15) Assistance needed on Dolorimetry
 * 16) Balloon Question
 * 17) linkage analysis and association analysis
 * 18) Black hole
 * 19) Towing and 4WD
 * 20) albino mammals
 * 21) CO2 emissions in production of concrete
 * 22) Deuterostomes and Protostomes
 * 23) In heat...?
 * 24) Weight of electric aircraft power source...?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 25


 * 1) Acid/base Indicators
 * 2) What is the etymology of 'Pakicetid' ?
 * 3) Nasal Drift Theory
 * 4) What happened to J. J. Sakurai?
 * 5) Deleted Global Warming Graph
 * 6) physics help
 * 7) Medicine and sneezes
 * 8) Energy density of a Supercapacitor...?
 * 9) Ice/physics question
 * 10) Economisers for steam bouilers
 * 11) Interglacials
 * 12) Strange noise from a lightbulb
 * 13) Appeal to restart the improvement process at physics
 * 14) First Time in Outer Space
 * 15) Oceanography and Marine Biology
 * 16) Energy density of compressed air...?
 * 17) Global Warming
 * 18) Magnetic Resonance Imaging
 * 19) Mesotherapy is it safe?
 * 20) Commercial vs Academic Scientific Research
 * 21) Determining the therapeutic index of a drug
 * 22) Future Human Evolution
 * 23) Nickel's anti-corrosive properties
 * 24) What type of plastic do I need?
 * 25) photographic memory
 * 26) Light from the Sun
 * 27) Physical appearance of ovarian cyst
 * 28) Transfat now, sugar later...?
 * 29) Nuclear bombs in a vacuum
 * 30) Different species of humans
 * 31) Applied kinesiology
 * 32) Superconducting magnetic energy storage...?
 * 33) What is the appropriate device for viewing terrestrial objects at high magnification
 * 34) Could Japan really sink in our lifetime?

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